DB2 DPF with multiple nodes

Introduction

To install DB2 partitioning across multiple nodes, the master node and the participating nodes should share DB2 binary folders and instance folders and DB2 through NFS. DB2 admin users should not share their home folders. In the following example, we assume there are three nodes:node28 (master), node29, and node30. /home folder is shared across these nodes through NFS. The folder /dpfhome is a local disk folder. The DB2 users should be the same names across the three nodes.

Create DB2 groups and users

We assume three users db2inst1, db2fenc1 and dasusr1 are created for all three nodes (28, 29, 30). With sudo, run following commands to create the groups and users on all three nodes.